ALSO, the skeleton in the blue jeans next to the sword. I think that's a deliberate fuck you to TMiL.
>
> >
> > It's a load of trash, if you ask me. I cringe when I see
> > it next to the other two. "Hang Cool Teddy Bear" was an
> > improvement though. I didn't mind that.
> > >
>
> Yeah, I quite like the artwork on Teddy Bear too. (I don't
> own it yet.)
>
> I also really like the way it seemingly unites the two
> Album narratives Meat has had going:
>
> The Fantasy Art / Gothic content: Bat / Dead Ringer
> / Bat 2 / TMiL
>
> The Girls!: Neighbourhood / Couldn't Have Said It
> Better.
>
> Then they both collided in Teddy Bear, which I THINK was
> actually Meat's intention, because along with the big IV
> on the back cover it sort of discredits TMiL as being
> anything overly significant. Maybe that's me reading too
> much into it, but that big IV was definitely deliberately
> put there for one reason or another. As if to say "Well
> the 'Bat 3' we just did came out pox, so now let's forget
> that and try again with part 4…
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